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We experimentally study spatial fluctuations of the local density of states (LDOS) inside three-dimensional random photonic media. The LDOS is probed at many positions inside the random photonic media by measuring emission rates of a large…

Optics · Physics 2010-07-06 M. D. Birowosuto , S. E. Skipetrov , W. L. Vos , A. P. Mosk

We study local density of state (LDOS) oscillations arising from the scattering of electrons at atomic edge defects in topological insulator (TI) surfaces. To create edge scattering on the surface of a TI, we assume that half of its surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 David J. Alspaugh , D. N. Sheng , Mahmoud M. Asmar

We calculate scattering interference patterns for various electronic states proposed for the pseudogap regime of the cuprate superconductors. The scattering interference models all produce patterns whose wavelength changes as a function of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Misra , M. Vershinin , P. Phillips , A. Yazdani

A high-energy spin resonance mode is known to exist in many high-temperature superconductors. Motivated by recent scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experiments in superconducting Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+\delta}$, we study the effects of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Jian-Xin Zhu , Jun Sun , Qimiao Si , A. V. Balatsky

In a scattering experiment, the induced dipole moments of a magnetoelectric point scatterer in response to driving fields are given by its polarizability tensor \alpha. Its linewidth will be dictated by the local density of optical states…

Optics · Physics 2013-03-19 Andrej Kwadrin , A. Femius Koenderink

We report an efficient quantum algorithm for estimating the local density of states (LDOS) on a quantum computer. The LDOS describes the redistribution of energy levels of a quantum system under the influence of a perturbation. Sometimes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joseph Emerson , Seth Lloyd , David Poulin , David Cory

Fourier transform scanning tunneling spectroscopy (FT-STS) measures the scattering of conduction electrons from impurities and defects, giving information about the electronic structure of both the host material and adsorbed impurities. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-14 Philip G. Derry , Andrew K. Mitchell , David E. Logan

We revisit the interpretation of quasiparticle scattering interference in cuprate high-$T_c$ superconductors. This phenomenon has been very successful in reconstructing the dispersions of d-wave Bogoliubov excitations, but the successful…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-18 Miguel Antonio Sulangi , Milan P. Allan , Jan Zaanen

The electronic density of states (DOS) quantifies the distribution of the energy levels that can be occupied by electrons in a quasiparticle picture, and is central to modern electronic structure theory. It also underpins the computation…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-04 Chiheb Ben Mahmoud , Andrea Anelli , Gábor Csányi , Michele Ceriotti

The interplay of superconductivity and disorder generates a wealth of complex phenomena. In particular, the peculiar structure of diffusive electronic wavefunctions is predicted to increase the superconducting critical temperature in some…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-17 Mathieu Lizée , Matthias Stosiek , Christophe Brun , Igor Burmistrov , Tristan Cren

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) is a powerful technique that utilizes quantum tunneling to visualize atomic surfaces with high precision. This study presents detailed topographic maps and evaluates the local density of states (LDOS) for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Dhananjay Saikumar

Motivated by recent high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experiments in the quantum Hall regime both on massive two-dimensional electron gas and on graphene, we consider theoretically the disorder averaged nonlocal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-04 T. Champel , S. Florens , M. E. Raikh

The quasiparticle density of states (DOS), the energy gap, the superfluid density $\rho_s$, and the localization effect in the s- and d-wave superconductors with non-magnetic impurity in two dimensions (2D) are studied numerically. For…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 T Xiang , J M Wheatley

We use a real-space recursion method to calculate the local density of states (LDOS) within a model that contains both d-wave superconducting and antiferromagnetic order. We focus on the LDOS in the superconducting phase near single…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Linda Udby , Brian M. Andersen , Per Hedegard

We propose in this article an unambiguous definition of the local density of electromagnetic states (LDOS) in a vacuum near an interface in an equilibrium situation at temperature $T$. We show that the LDOS depends only on the electric…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Joulain , R. Carminati , J. -P Mulet , J. -J. Greffet

Motivated by the recent scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experiment [J. E. Hoffman, {\it et al.}, Science {\bf 297}, 1148 (2002)], we investigate the energy-dependent modulation induced by a weak and extended defect in a d-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Degang Zhang , C. S. Ting

We develop a theory of quasiparticle localization in superconductors in situations without spin rotation invariance. We discuss the existence, and properties of superconducting phases with localized/delocalized quasiparticle excitations in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Senthil , Matthew P. A. Fisher

Scanning tunneling microscopy can provide a probe for the detailed study of quasiparticle states in high-Tc superconductors. We propose that it can also be used to acquire specific information about impurity-induced quasiparticle states and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-28 M. I. Salkola , A. V. Balatsky , D. J. Scalapino

We theoretically investigate the local density of states (LDOS) probed by a STM tip of ferromagnetic metals hosting a single adatom and a subsurface impurity. We model the system via the two-impurity Anderson Hamiltonian. By using the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-14 A. C. Seridonio , S. C. Leandro , L. H. Guessi , E. C. Siqueira , F. M. Souza , E. Vernek , M. S. Figueira , J. C. Egues

Quasiperiodic moir\'e materials provide a new platform for realizing critical electronic states, yet a direct and experimentally practical method to characterize this criticality has been lacking. We show that a multifractal analysis of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-24 Ricardo Oliveira , Nicolau Sobrosa , Pedro Ribeiro , Bruno Amorim , Eduardo V. Castro